Before The Flood

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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    grooveamatic wrote:
    Go tell that to Maya Angelou. ;)

    Ah, should have said "Establishment", then. ;)
  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    Fins, I dare say we are witty.
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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    This is one of my favorite poems of yours, Mr. Carrots. I also like that one, if I remember correctly, was placed near the sea. I've tried more non-form poetry recently because when I reread my poetry that is my best, but my style of 2005 is the same as my style of 1995. So in non-form poetry I have not grown as a poet. It's disconcerting. I look at your poetry, and I almost crave the challenge to myself to get back to a 10x14 syllable form even though I didn't really like the result as much. Form for me by definition sounds forced, but it's more crafted. Thanks for the inspiration!
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    It's a challenge. But there's a magic in it. The Iliad's not in dactyllic hexameter for nothing; and Shakespeare used iambic pentameter to betwitch, curse, enrapture and construct the mindsets of future days. There's something in form that's more radical than free verse, something more dangerous, prayerlike, incantory, heartbeat-like, sexy, vivacious, and mysterious: if you can twist form inside out you get inside the mystery of things.

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